Sentences with phrase «asymptomatic carriers for»

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«Atrophy of the hippocampus, a region of the brain crucial for memory, is a common feature of AD, although it may also be detected in asymptomatic individuals as well as healthy adult carriers of the ApoE ɛ4 allele,» explained Andy Simmons, PhD, of the Department of Neuroimaging of the Institute of Psychiatry of King's College London.

A carrier for a recessive condition is asymptomatic and has a pathogenic genetic variant in just one of their two copies of the associated gene.

An asymptomatic carrier is defined as a host for an infectious agent who does not show any signs at all that they are infected.

A small study in the UK showed 16 % of young asymptomatic GSDs to be homozygous for the mutation, with a further 38 % being carriers.

Tests may be run to detect the genetic mutation responsible for hypomyelination, though some dogs can be asymptomatic carriers of the genetic defect.

As in many herpes infections found in other species, adult animals can live for years with no apparent signs; these are called «asymptomatic carriers.»

In Asymptomatic Carrier, Heath begins with a phone call to a flag fabricator, slowly revealing the fact that he is looking for a flag to wave above what has become his home on the otherwise abandoned North Brother Island.

Unfortunately, without symptoms (i.e., when warts aren't present), there is no FDA - approved method for testing for the virus, so you can't know for sure if someone is an asymptomatic carrier.

Unfortunately, there is no way for him to know for sure if he's cleared the virus or if he's an asymptomatic carrier.